Corner of Knox St. & Liverpool Rd. Ashfield
Corner of Knox St. & Liverpool Rd. Ashfield
When God made the ultimate promise in His covenant with Abraham that He would be a God to Abraham and to his descendents forever, He also added part of His name to Abram’s name – this was a custom of covenant rituals – so his name became ‘Abraham’.
All of us sense a need to belong to someone. It’s a feeling that is inbred in us from the very first moments of our existence.
While it has become popular today amongst atheists to mock the God of the Bible as “a divine, genocidal psychopath”, we discover through God’s covenants in the Bible that He is just the opposite; He is actually a God of grace and blessing.
One of the most important things that we can do is to get a big-picture view of the Bible. I know some people that come to church are not really interested in the “big picture” of God’s plans for the world.
“Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has come and has redeemed His people. He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David.’” (Luke 1:67-69)
“For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eye witnesses of his majesty… And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention.” (2 Peter 1:16, 19) While some [...]
“Consider the work of God: who can make straight what He has made crooked? In the days of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.” (Ecclesiastes 7:13, 14)
“A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth. It is better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of feasting for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart.” (Ecclesiastes 7:1-2) While the new [...]
“So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is was meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” (Ecclesiastes 2:17) If there is anything in life that can lead to frustration, anguish and disappointment, it is the daily grind of our jobs. As Dolly Parton [...]
“I thought in my heart, ‘Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.’ But that also proved to be meaningless.” (Ecclesiastes 2:1) Augustine, the famous theologian of the fourth century, reminds us in a well-known saying that earthly pleasures can never really satisfy the human heart. He wrote: “You [...]